This study is a synthesis of the main results of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos (PNAUM - National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines), Evaluation Component of the Basic Pharmaceutical Services. Based on the critical narrative of the elements of Brazil's pharmaceutical policies, we discuss aspects related to...

The use of technology has contributed to what Max Weber termed the “disenchantment of the world”. Curiously, however, we see that certain computer applications – primarily computer games – are now used to re-enchant the world by once again allowing magic, moral and narrative into what was constructed to be a rational reality. This project – the re-construction of the enchanted world – is an int...

Are inferences, theoretical and practical, subject to requirements of rationality? If so, are these of the form ‘if ... ought ...’, or ‘ought ... if ...’? If the latter, how are we to understand the ‘if’? It seems that, in all cases, we get unintuitive implications if ‘ought’ connotes having reason. It is difficult to formulate such requirements, and obscure what they explain. There might also ...

We use a family of algebraic foliations given by A. Lins Neto to provide new evidences to a conjecture, related to the Harbourne-Hirschowitz's one and implying the Nagata's conjecture, which concerns the structure of the Mori cone of blow-ups of P 2 at very general points. Also, we give an explicit family of smooth projective rational surfaces X such that the set of faces of the Mori cone N E(X...

In classical decision theory there exists a large class of rationality models which try to capture different kinds of behavior when individuals compare by pairs a set of alternatives. All these models assume that decision makers have dichotomous preferences. However, in real decisions individuals feel different degrees of preference. In this paper we have checked the mentioned models in a real ...

iii   this study was an attempt to determine the effect of task-based approach vs. traditional approach on the narrative and expository writing of the iranian efl learners. there were two control groups as well as two experimental ones in the current study. in the two control groups namely g1 and g2 narrative and expository writing were taught respectively using the traditiona...

Introduction Staging investigations at diagnosis are customary to accurately assign a clinical stage before therapy. The practice of routine imaging in patients asymptomatic for metastasis is not recommended but widely adopted. This study was done to reexamine the basis behind guideline recommendations and to identify the factors predictive of asymptomatic metastasis. Methods Oncology records...

basic subject of this paper is basics, conditions of legitimacy of appearances of the quran and scope of documentation to it in usul theory of shaikh murtaza ansari in which is explained and evaluated shaikh ansari’s theory in analytical – critical way. by accepting legitimacy of appearances of the quran in his usul basics, shaikh ansari has used of it in inference of legal sentences from quran...